yeah, yeah, first time. his very first time playing. so let s maybe let s let him win. what s it like being mexican american? what s that like? i wouldn t change it. i love being tex mex. i love being from texas. i m all about texas. i have a shirt that says i just lucky legal . which is true, a lot of people are just lucky legal. we re not illegals. you know, our just because we re darker it s hot out it s hot in texas. our ancestors are from there, but we were born here, in the united states so don t try to send us back somewhere we re not even from. train horn blares. the next day, and a few more stops down the train line, deep into southern texas, and you find yourself even closer to the mexican border the last frontier, some call it. alpine station is the jumping off point to one of america s most remote national parks. we drive through a vista
sometimes we are an hour away from civilisation and babies don t wait. laughs. they cheer. 0n we roll as we cross into texas and are joined by a group of train buffs on a day trip. so you are mostly here because of these two? yes, he saw thomas the train one time when he was about two years old, and since then he has been all about trains. join the club! laughs. i actually have a couple of 1/8 scale amtrak cars, and since i got them i thought they looked so good, that i was waiting for a long time to ride on amtrak, and i was thinking it was like, time to hit the tracks. some people don t get into the smaller areas, the smaller towns, so by going
let s let him win. what s it like being mexican american? what s that like? i wouldn t change it. i love being tex mex. i love being from texas. i m all about texas. i have a shirt that says i just lucky legal . which is true, a lot of people are just lucky legal. we re not illegals. you know, our just because we re darker it s hot out it s hot in texas. our ancestors are from there, but we were born here, in the united states so don t try to send us back somewhere we re not even from. train horn blares. the next day, and a few more stops down the train line, deep into southern texas, and you find yourself even closer to the mexican border the last frontier, some call it. alpine station is the jumping off point to one of america s most remote national parks. we drive through a vista that feels straight out of a western.
the united states. it opened up transportation from east to west and that was the big thing, was transportation of both goods and people. the train might have been instrumental in the creation of modern day america, but today rail use is way below that of air and road travel, which are often cheaper and quicker. so why would anyone take the train? you have areas that you basically don t have planes flying into it, you don t have greyhound buses going to so these isolated places in texas especially and new mexico, this is the lifeblood to get transportation through. every trip is unique. it s a moving city. you have people giving birth, you have people. that s happened ? oh yeah. 0n the train. sometimes we are an hour away from civilisation and babies don t wait. laughs.
the government lists companies with the cheapest at the top, but some firms have advertised tests at lower prices, only to charge more at checkout, or the tests aren t available at all. today, the government has said that 82 test providers will be given a warning about misleading pricing and could be removed altogether. 57 have already been removed from the list because they no longer exist or don t provide relevant testing services. some testing companies hope this will help the industry s reputation. over the last weeks, companies in the space, the industry, has received a bad reputation, not because of everybody, just from a select few, so now that those select few are removed, we think that, you know, the industry can now show its capability, focusing on quality of service as well as obviously trying to reduce the price at the same time. this provider has done over a million tests, and it s pleased to say it hasn t been getting a warning. this is where the pcr tests are first proce